WARNING: If any of you reading this haven't read the Harry Potter Series yet, you need to stop reading this blog post and go read Harry Potter. Really if you haven't read the books yet stop reading here because I don't want to spoil the story for anyone.
I could go on forever talking about Harry Potter. He is my favorite story book character and this series is definitely one of my favorites. My mom used to read them to my sister and I when we were little and they had just come out. I remember going to the bookstore with my mom and buying the second book when it was brand new. J.K. Rowling is, of course, one of my heroes just for writing these books and I admire her greatly. I reread all seven books last school year and I didn't want to stop reading. I would drag out each book as long as possible because I didn't want it to end. And yes, I will admit I did cry at the end of the seventh book a couple of times. If anyone thinks they can just watch the movies and think they are as good as the books, they are oh so wrong. First off, if you want to understand half the things that go on in the movies, you have to read the books. The movies are good but they tend to leave out little details that are rather important and are only told in the books. The fifth movie is a good example of this. I went to see the fifth movie before I had read the book and I hated the movie because I didn't understand anything. But then, I read the fifth book and watched the movie after and it became one of my favorite movies because I knew what was going on. I'm not saying I don't like the movies because I really do like the movies, I'm just saying they aren't nearly as good as the books. The fun part about the movies, though, is watching the characters grow up. Go to Google images and type in Harry Potter now and then. You will get some of the cutest pictures ever! They compare the first movie with the last one and you can see how much the three main characters have grown.
As I said earlier, I prefer the books over the movies because in the books, they add in all of the little details and they give so much more than the movie. And also when you are reading the books, you can decide what everything and everyone is going to look like whereas in the movie everything looks different than what you imagined. See, in my head, Cedric Diggory looked nothing like Rob Pattinson. But then again, that's not how I pictured Edward Cullen in my head either when I read Twilight. I always seem to think I am right when I picture these things in my head and that's the way they have to be in the movie. Then I blame everything on the director when nothing looks the way I pictured it.
Another thing to love about Harry Potter is the music in the movies! I love love love the music in the movies. We got to play the music for a band concert once and I absolutely loved it! I can't believe I am writing this online for the world to see, but my little brother and I used to go outside in the backyard and find good sticks to make into wands and then we would have Harry Potter duels in the backyard. Then, we would find bigger sticks to use as brooms and would get a soccer ball out and run around on sticks throwing a soccer ball around, playing Quidditch. My mom would get "mad" at us when we used the Avada Kedavra (killing curse) on each other.
I don't like to play favorites, but I am going to. I think the third book is my favorite. Which was surprising to me when I read it, because that was one of my least favorite movies. I don't have a least favorite book because they were all amazing, it's just that the third one was really good. My favorite of the movies would have to be...I don't know. I like the first one because it's a classic. I like the second one because of the intensity at the end with the basilisk. I think the third one is ok but not the best because it's kinda boring. The only thing I really like about the third one is when Harry meets Sirius for the first time. I love the fourth one because 1) Cedric Diggory and 2) the competition and the maze at the end is scary the first few times you see it. I didn't like the fifth movie until I read the book, because you didn't know what was going on in the movie until you read the book and it explained everything. But after I read the book, the fifth movie became one of my absolute favorites. I liked the sixth one, but was a little disappointed by the lack of detail. I do realize that if they had added all the details, the movie would have been like four hours long, so I think they did good with the allotted time. Well after reading all of my movie critiques, you can probably only imagine how excited I am for the seventh movie: part one to come out. I really wish that they didn't have to spread out the dates between the seventh part one and two so much because I am the kind of person that will forget everything like a day after I see it.
Well that's that for now. Comment on my Harry Potter loving, and if you're a Harry Potter hater...oh wait there's no such thing! :) Leave me some comments!
Pelekania
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